Resynchronizing Jittery AES Power Traces

What happens if things aren't as clean as we made them out to be? We can use preprocessing modules!

In [1]:
SCOPETYPE = 'OPENADC'
PLATFORM = 'CWLITEXMEGA'
CRYPTO_TARGET = 'AVRCRYPTOLIB'
num_traces = 250
CHECK_CORR = False

Capturing Jittery Traces

Rebuilding New Firmware

In file chipwhisperer/hardware/victims/firmware/simpleserial-aes/simpleserial-aes.c find this:

uint8_t get_pt(uint8_t* pt)
{
    trigger_high();
    aes_indep_enc(pt); /* encrypting the data block */
    trigger_low();
    simpleserial_put('r', 16, pt);
    return 0x00;
}

and add some random delay:

uint8_t get_pt(uint8_t* pt)
{
    trigger_high();
       for(volatile uint8_t k = 0; k < (*pt & 0x0F); k++);
    aes_indep_enc(pt); /* encrypting the data block */
    trigger_low();
    simpleserial_put('r', 16, pt);
    return 0x00;
}

This deterministic delay is NOT a good countermeasure, but is much easier to write in a single line since we don’t have a CSPRNG linked in. We’ll break the jitter without relying on the deterministic aspect though, so our attack would work against a better jitter source.

Be sure to remove this function afterwards so you don't break your code!

We can build the code (change the platform as needed), and confirm the output of the following works as you expect:

In [2]:
%%bash -s "$PLATFORM" "$CRYPTO_TARGET"
cd ../../hardware/victims/firmware/simpleserial-aes
make PLATFORM=$1 CRYPTO_TARGET=$2 EXTRA_OPTS=ADD_JITTER
rm -f -- simpleserial-aes-CWLITEXMEGA.hex

rm -f -- simpleserial-aes-CWLITEXMEGA.eep

rm -f -- simpleserial-aes-CWLITEXMEGA.cof

rm -f -- simpleserial-aes-CWLITEXMEGA.elf

rm -f -- simpleserial-aes-CWLITEXMEGA.map

rm -f -- simpleserial-aes-CWLITEXMEGA.sym

rm -f -- simpleserial-aes-CWLITEXMEGA.lss

rm -f -- objdir/*.o

rm -f -- objdir/*.lst

rm -f -- simpleserial-aes.s simpleserial.s XMEGA_AES_driver.s uart.s usart_driver.s xmega_hal.s aes-independant.s aes_enc.s aes_keyschedule.s aes_sbox.s aes128_enc.s

rm -f -- simpleserial-aes.d simpleserial.d XMEGA_AES_driver.d uart.d usart_driver.d xmega_hal.d aes-independant.d aes_enc.d aes_keyschedule.d aes_sbox.d aes128_enc.d

rm -f -- simpleserial-aes.i simpleserial.i XMEGA_AES_driver.i uart.i usart_driver.i xmega_hal.i aes-independant.i aes_enc.i aes_keyschedule.i aes_sbox.i aes128_enc.i

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avr-gcc (WinAVR 20100110) 4.3.3

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This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There is NO

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Compiling C: simpleserial-aes.c

avr-gcc -c -mmcu=atxmega128d3 -I. -DADD_JITTER -fpack-struct -gdwarf-2 -DSS_VER=SS_VER_1_1 -DHAL_TYPE=HAL_xmega -DPLATFORM=CWLITEXMEGA -DAVRCRYPTOLIB -DF_CPU=7372800UL -Os -funsigned-char -funsigned-bitfields -fshort-enums -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -Wa,-adhlns=objdir/simpleserial-aes.lst -I.././simpleserial/ -I.././hal -I.././hal/xmega -I.././crypto/ -I.././crypto/avrcryptolib//aes -I.././crypto/avrcryptolib//gf256mul -std=gnu99 -MMD -MP -MF .dep/simpleserial-aes.o.d simpleserial-aes.c -o objdir/simpleserial-aes.o 

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Compiling C: .././simpleserial/simpleserial.c

avr-gcc -c -mmcu=atxmega128d3 -I. -DADD_JITTER -fpack-struct -gdwarf-2 -DSS_VER=SS_VER_1_1 -DHAL_TYPE=HAL_xmega -DPLATFORM=CWLITEXMEGA -DAVRCRYPTOLIB -DF_CPU=7372800UL -Os -funsigned-char -funsigned-bitfields -fshort-enums -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -Wa,-adhlns=objdir/simpleserial.lst -I.././simpleserial/ -I.././hal -I.././hal/xmega -I.././crypto/ -I.././crypto/avrcryptolib//aes -I.././crypto/avrcryptolib//gf256mul -std=gnu99 -MMD -MP -MF .dep/simpleserial.o.d .././simpleserial/simpleserial.c -o objdir/simpleserial.o 

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Compiling C: .././hal/xmega/XMEGA_AES_driver.c

avr-gcc -c -mmcu=atxmega128d3 -I. -DADD_JITTER -fpack-struct -gdwarf-2 -DSS_VER=SS_VER_1_1 -DHAL_TYPE=HAL_xmega -DPLATFORM=CWLITEXMEGA -DAVRCRYPTOLIB -DF_CPU=7372800UL -Os -funsigned-char -funsigned-bitfields -fshort-enums -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -Wa,-adhlns=objdir/XMEGA_AES_driver.lst -I.././simpleserial/ -I.././hal -I.././hal/xmega -I.././crypto/ -I.././crypto/avrcryptolib//aes -I.././crypto/avrcryptolib//gf256mul -std=gnu99 -MMD -MP -MF .dep/XMEGA_AES_driver.o.d .././hal/xmega/XMEGA_AES_driver.c -o objdir/XMEGA_AES_driver.o 

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Compiling C: .././hal/xmega/uart.c

avr-gcc -c -mmcu=atxmega128d3 -I. -DADD_JITTER -fpack-struct -gdwarf-2 -DSS_VER=SS_VER_1_1 -DHAL_TYPE=HAL_xmega -DPLATFORM=CWLITEXMEGA -DAVRCRYPTOLIB -DF_CPU=7372800UL -Os -funsigned-char -funsigned-bitfields -fshort-enums -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -Wa,-adhlns=objdir/uart.lst -I.././simpleserial/ -I.././hal -I.././hal/xmega -I.././crypto/ -I.././crypto/avrcryptolib//aes -I.././crypto/avrcryptolib//gf256mul -std=gnu99 -MMD -MP -MF .dep/uart.o.d .././hal/xmega/uart.c -o objdir/uart.o 

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Compiling C: .././hal/xmega/usart_driver.c

avr-gcc -c -mmcu=atxmega128d3 -I. -DADD_JITTER -fpack-struct -gdwarf-2 -DSS_VER=SS_VER_1_1 -DHAL_TYPE=HAL_xmega -DPLATFORM=CWLITEXMEGA -DAVRCRYPTOLIB -DF_CPU=7372800UL -Os -funsigned-char -funsigned-bitfields -fshort-enums -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -Wa,-adhlns=objdir/usart_driver.lst -I.././simpleserial/ -I.././hal -I.././hal/xmega -I.././crypto/ -I.././crypto/avrcryptolib//aes -I.././crypto/avrcryptolib//gf256mul -std=gnu99 -MMD -MP -MF .dep/usart_driver.o.d .././hal/xmega/usart_driver.c -o objdir/usart_driver.o 

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Compiling C: .././hal/xmega/xmega_hal.c

avr-gcc -c -mmcu=atxmega128d3 -I. -DADD_JITTER -fpack-struct -gdwarf-2 -DSS_VER=SS_VER_1_1 -DHAL_TYPE=HAL_xmega -DPLATFORM=CWLITEXMEGA -DAVRCRYPTOLIB -DF_CPU=7372800UL -Os -funsigned-char -funsigned-bitfields -fshort-enums -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -Wa,-adhlns=objdir/xmega_hal.lst -I.././simpleserial/ -I.././hal -I.././hal/xmega -I.././crypto/ -I.././crypto/avrcryptolib//aes -I.././crypto/avrcryptolib//gf256mul -std=gnu99 -MMD -MP -MF .dep/xmega_hal.o.d .././hal/xmega/xmega_hal.c -o objdir/xmega_hal.o 

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Compiling C: .././crypto/aes-independant.c

avr-gcc -c -mmcu=atxmega128d3 -I. -DADD_JITTER -fpack-struct -gdwarf-2 -DSS_VER=SS_VER_1_1 -DHAL_TYPE=HAL_xmega -DPLATFORM=CWLITEXMEGA -DAVRCRYPTOLIB -DF_CPU=7372800UL -Os -funsigned-char -funsigned-bitfields -fshort-enums -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -Wa,-adhlns=objdir/aes-independant.lst -I.././simpleserial/ -I.././hal -I.././hal/xmega -I.././crypto/ -I.././crypto/avrcryptolib//aes -I.././crypto/avrcryptolib//gf256mul -std=gnu99 -MMD -MP -MF .dep/aes-independant.o.d .././crypto/aes-independant.c -o objdir/aes-independant.o 

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Compiling C: .././crypto/avrcryptolib//aes/aes_enc.c

avr-gcc -c -mmcu=atxmega128d3 -I. -DADD_JITTER -fpack-struct -gdwarf-2 -DSS_VER=SS_VER_1_1 -DHAL_TYPE=HAL_xmega -DPLATFORM=CWLITEXMEGA -DAVRCRYPTOLIB -DF_CPU=7372800UL -Os -funsigned-char -funsigned-bitfields -fshort-enums -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -Wa,-adhlns=objdir/aes_enc.lst -I.././simpleserial/ -I.././hal -I.././hal/xmega -I.././crypto/ -I.././crypto/avrcryptolib//aes -I.././crypto/avrcryptolib//gf256mul -std=gnu99 -MMD -MP -MF .dep/aes_enc.o.d .././crypto/avrcryptolib//aes/aes_enc.c -o objdir/aes_enc.o 

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Compiling C: .././crypto/avrcryptolib//aes/aes_keyschedule.c

avr-gcc -c -mmcu=atxmega128d3 -I. -DADD_JITTER -fpack-struct -gdwarf-2 -DSS_VER=SS_VER_1_1 -DHAL_TYPE=HAL_xmega -DPLATFORM=CWLITEXMEGA -DAVRCRYPTOLIB -DF_CPU=7372800UL -Os -funsigned-char -funsigned-bitfields -fshort-enums -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -Wa,-adhlns=objdir/aes_keyschedule.lst -I.././simpleserial/ -I.././hal -I.././hal/xmega -I.././crypto/ -I.././crypto/avrcryptolib//aes -I.././crypto/avrcryptolib//gf256mul -std=gnu99 -MMD -MP -MF .dep/aes_keyschedule.o.d .././crypto/avrcryptolib//aes/aes_keyschedule.c -o objdir/aes_keyschedule.o 

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Compiling C: .././crypto/avrcryptolib//aes/aes_sbox.c

avr-gcc -c -mmcu=atxmega128d3 -I. -DADD_JITTER -fpack-struct -gdwarf-2 -DSS_VER=SS_VER_1_1 -DHAL_TYPE=HAL_xmega -DPLATFORM=CWLITEXMEGA -DAVRCRYPTOLIB -DF_CPU=7372800UL -Os -funsigned-char -funsigned-bitfields -fshort-enums -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -Wa,-adhlns=objdir/aes_sbox.lst -I.././simpleserial/ -I.././hal -I.././hal/xmega -I.././crypto/ -I.././crypto/avrcryptolib//aes -I.././crypto/avrcryptolib//gf256mul -std=gnu99 -MMD -MP -MF .dep/aes_sbox.o.d .././crypto/avrcryptolib//aes/aes_sbox.c -o objdir/aes_sbox.o 

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Compiling C: .././crypto/avrcryptolib//aes/aes128_enc.c

avr-gcc -c -mmcu=atxmega128d3 -I. -DADD_JITTER -fpack-struct -gdwarf-2 -DSS_VER=SS_VER_1_1 -DHAL_TYPE=HAL_xmega -DPLATFORM=CWLITEXMEGA -DAVRCRYPTOLIB -DF_CPU=7372800UL -Os -funsigned-char -funsigned-bitfields -fshort-enums -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -Wa,-adhlns=objdir/aes128_enc.lst -I.././simpleserial/ -I.././hal -I.././hal/xmega -I.././crypto/ -I.././crypto/avrcryptolib//aes -I.././crypto/avrcryptolib//gf256mul -std=gnu99 -MMD -MP -MF .dep/aes128_enc.o.d .././crypto/avrcryptolib//aes/aes128_enc.c -o objdir/aes128_enc.o 

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Assembling: .././crypto/avrcryptolib//gf256mul/gf256mul.S

avr-gcc -c -mmcu=atxmega128d3 -I. -x assembler-with-cpp -DF_CPU=7372800 -Wa,-gstabs,-adhlns=objdir/gf256mul.lst -I.././simpleserial/ -I.././hal -I.././hal/xmega -I.././crypto/ -I.././crypto/avrcryptolib//aes -I.././crypto/avrcryptolib//gf256mul .././crypto/avrcryptolib//gf256mul/gf256mul.S -o objdir/gf256mul.o

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Linking: simpleserial-aes-CWLITEXMEGA.elf

avr-gcc -mmcu=atxmega128d3 -I. -DADD_JITTER -fpack-struct -gdwarf-2 -DSS_VER=SS_VER_1_1 -DHAL_TYPE=HAL_xmega -DPLATFORM=CWLITEXMEGA -DAVRCRYPTOLIB -DF_CPU=7372800UL -Os -funsigned-char -funsigned-bitfields -fshort-enums -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -Wa,-adhlns=objdir/simpleserial-aes.o -I.././simpleserial/ -I.././hal -I.././hal/xmega -I.././crypto/ -I.././crypto/avrcryptolib//aes -I.././crypto/avrcryptolib//gf256mul -std=gnu99 -MMD -MP -MF .dep/simpleserial-aes-CWLITEXMEGA.elf.d objdir/simpleserial-aes.o objdir/simpleserial.o objdir/XMEGA_AES_driver.o objdir/uart.o objdir/usart_driver.o objdir/xmega_hal.o objdir/aes-independant.o objdir/aes_enc.o objdir/aes_keyschedule.o objdir/aes_sbox.o objdir/aes128_enc.o objdir/gf256mul.o --output simpleserial-aes-CWLITEXMEGA.elf -Wl,-Map=simpleserial-aes-CWLITEXMEGA.map,--cref   -lm  

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Creating load file for Flash: simpleserial-aes-CWLITEXMEGA.hex

avr-objcopy -O ihex -R .eeprom -R .fuse -R .lock -R .signature simpleserial-aes-CWLITEXMEGA.elf simpleserial-aes-CWLITEXMEGA.hex

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Creating load file for EEPROM: simpleserial-aes-CWLITEXMEGA.eep

avr-objcopy -j .eeprom --set-section-flags=.eeprom="alloc,load" \

	--change-section-lma .eeprom=0 --no-change-warnings -O ihex simpleserial-aes-CWLITEXMEGA.elf simpleserial-aes-CWLITEXMEGA.eep || exit 0

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Creating Extended Listing: simpleserial-aes-CWLITEXMEGA.lss

avr-objdump -h -S -z simpleserial-aes-CWLITEXMEGA.elf > simpleserial-aes-CWLITEXMEGA.lss

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Creating Symbol Table: simpleserial-aes-CWLITEXMEGA.sym

avr-nm -n simpleserial-aes-CWLITEXMEGA.elf > simpleserial-aes-CWLITEXMEGA.sym

Size after:

   text	   data	    bss	    dec	    hex	filename

   3474	     32	    228	   3734	    e96	simpleserial-aes-CWLITEXMEGA.elf

+--------------------------------------------------------

+ Built for platform CW-Lite XMEGA

+--------------------------------------------------------

Setup

Now let's go ahead. We'll have to program the file we built, so be sure to confirm we are using the right file!

In [3]:
%run "Helper_Scripts/Setup.ipynb"
In [4]:
import os, time

fw_path = '../../hardware/victims/firmware/simpleserial-aes/simpleserial-aes-{}.hex'.format(PLATFORM)

modtime = os.path.getmtime(fw_path)
print("File build time: {:s} (built {:.2f} mins ago)".format(str(time.ctime(modtime)), (time.time() - modtime)/60.0))
File build time: Fri Jun 14 14:29:27 2019 (built 0.04 mins ago)
In [5]:
cw.programTarget(scope, prog, fw_path)
XMEGA Programming flash...
XMEGA Reading flash...
Verified flash OK, 3505 bytes

In addition, before we capture our traces, we'll need to create a ChipWhipserer project, since that's what Analyzer expects for an input:

In [6]:
project = cw.createProject("projects/jupyter_test_jittertime.cwp", overwrite = True)

And we can get the class used to hold our traces by:

In [7]:
tc = project.newSegment()

Capturing Traces

Below you can see the capture loop. The main body of the loop loads some new plaintext, arms the scope, sends the key and plaintext, then finally records and our new trace into our trace class. We'll also keep track of our keys manually for checking our answer later.

In [8]:
#Capture Traces
from tqdm import tnrange
import numpy as np
import time

ktp = cw.ktp.Basic(target=target)

keys = []
target.init()
for i in tnrange(num_traces, desc='Capturing traces'):
    # run aux stuff that should come before trace here

    key, text = ktp.newPair()  # manual creation of a key, text pair can be substituted here
    keys.append(key)

    #target.reinit()

    target.setModeEncrypt()  # only does something for targets that support it
    target.loadEncryptionKey(key)
    target.loadInput(text)

    # run aux stuff that should run before the scope arms here

    scope.arm()

    # run aux stuff that should run after the scope arms here

    target.go()
    timeout = 50
    # wait for target to finish
    while target.isDone() is False and timeout:
        timeout -= 1
        time.sleep(0.01)

    try:
        ret = scope.capture()
        if ret:
            print('Timeout happened during acquisition')
    except IOError as e:
        print('IOError: %s' % str(e))

    # run aux stuff that should happen after trace here
    _ = target.readOutput()  # clears the response from the serial port
    #traces.append(scope.getLastTrace())
    tc.addTrace(scope.getLastTrace(), text, "", key)

Now that we have our traces, we need to tell the project that the traces are loaded and add them to the project's trace manager.

In [9]:
project.appendSegment(tc)

#Save project file
project.save()

We're now done with the ChipWhisperer hardware, so we should disconnect from the scope and target:

In [10]:
# cleanup the connection to the target and scope
scope.dis()
target.dis()

Analysis

To fix the jitter, we'll need to add our traces to a preprocessing module. We can feed project.traceManager() right into attack.setTraceSource(), but we could also add pre-processing inbetween (more about this later). We'll also re-open the traces, in this case it is required since the call to closeAll() would have flushed the buffers.

In [11]:
#Force reload of project data (if you comment out 'closeAll()' this isn't needed)

#We also rebuild the project object in case you only want to run this half
import chipwhisperer as cw
project = cw.openProject("projects/jupyter_test_jittertime.cwp")

This time we're going to do a few things. First we will get the traces, and plot a few of them as-is. You can adjust the traces plotted by adjusting the range(10). For example range(1) plots the first trace.

In [12]:
tm = project.traceManager()

from bokeh.plotting import figure, show
from bokeh.io import output_notebook
from bokeh.palettes import Dark2_5 as palette
import itertools  

output_notebook()
p = figure(sizing_mode='scale_width', plot_height=300)

# create a color iterator
colors = itertools.cycle(palette)  

x_range = range(0, tm.numPoints())
for i, color in zip(range(10), colors): #Adjust range(n) to plot certain traces
    p.line(x_range, tm.getTrace(i), color=color)
show(p)
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So how do we fix that? To begin with, you should plot only a single trace to make your life more clear. You'll need to figure out a very unique area. For example see the following figure showing a single plot. In this example the location of A is unique, but B would have many matches within that same trace, even nearby: Resync example trace

We will specify two items:

  • A window with the "unique" area defined.
  • How far we will shift the window (+/- points) to search for the best match.

You can use the following code to define the target_window and max_shift. Try a few values until you find something that works. Also try some poor example, and also try plotting more traces to confirm your match is working in real life.

In [13]:
resync_traces = cw.preprocessing.ResyncSAD(tm, connectTracePlot=False)
resync_traces.enabled = True
resync_traces.ref_trace = 0

if PLATFORM == "CWNANO":
    #Define a target window here. 500,900 for example is good based on above. But try some different values.
    resync_traces.target_window = (300, 700)

    # Define max_shift. Must not cause target_window to go outside of valid data. Try 16-600 range. Ideal value varies with how
    # much jitter is in original data. 
    resync_traces.max_shift = 300
elif PLATFORM == "CWLITEXMEGA" or PLATFORM == "CW303":
    #Define a target window here. 500,900 for example is good based on above. But try some different values.
    resync_traces.target_window = (1000, 1400)

    # Define max_shift. Must not cause target_window to go outside of valid data. Try 16-600 range. Ideal value varies with how
    # much jitter is in original data. 
    resync_traces.max_shift = 1000
else:
    #Define a target window here. 500,900 for example is good based on above. But try some different values.
    resync_traces.target_window = (700, 1500)

    # Define max_shift. Must not cause target_window to go outside of valid data. Try 16-600 range. Ideal value varies with how
    # much jitter is in original data. 
    resync_traces.max_shift = 700

#Uses objects from previous cells (plotting etc), so 
output_notebook()
p = figure()

for i, color in zip(range(10), colors):
    p.line(x_range, resync_traces.getTrace(i), color=color)
show(p)

preprocessed_traces = resync_traces
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If this all works - let's just continue the attack! Do so as below:

In [14]:
leak_model = cw.AES128(cw.aes128leakage.SBox_output)
attack = cw.cpa(preprocessed_traces, leak_model)

And then actually run it:

In [15]:
cb = cw.getJupyterCallback(attack)
attack_results = attack.processTracesNoGUI(cb)
Finished traces 240 to 250
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15
PGE= 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
0 2B
0.828
7E
0.832
15
0.842
16
0.869
28
0.823
AE
0.829
D2
0.800
A6
0.827
AB
0.811
F7
0.855
15
0.855
88
0.857
09
0.775
CF
0.785
4F
0.852
3C
0.826
1 2A
0.573
7F
0.596
14
0.560
17
0.575
29
0.542
AF
0.614
D3
0.608
A7
0.575
AA
0.615
F6
0.610
14
0.595
89
0.626
08
0.606
CE
0.648
4E
0.620
3D
0.538
2 A4
0.387
7C
0.341
81
0.345
59
0.341
92
0.318
09
0.340
BD
0.321
99
0.322
7E
0.327
50
0.350
58
0.343
D7
0.340
48
0.312
FF
0.336
21
0.312
36
0.310
3 DB
0.335
80
0.322
2A
0.333
C3
0.335
FD
0.302
9B
0.319
E4
0.308
85
0.297
52
0.305
6B
0.320
03
0.323
AD
0.301
FF
0.309
BA
0.323
F5
0.308
AE
0.308
4 1E
0.334
19
0.313
5E
0.302
3F
0.319
83
0.300
E1
0.305
4B
0.295
0F
0.285
44
0.294
5A
0.315
3C
0.308
5E
0.295
22
0.308
1B
0.315
FB
0.299
02
0.301

You should see the PGE reach 0 for each byte. If not, you might need to adjust the SAD resync. You could also need to increase the length of the sample capture for example. You may notice that it starts working OK and then fails, due to later traces become unsychronized.

Plotting Correlation Output

In [16]:
from bokeh.plotting import figure, show
from bokeh.io import output_notebook

attack_results = attack.getStatistics()
plot_data = cw.analyzerPlots(attack_results)
bnum = 0

ret = plot_data.outputVsTime(bnum)

output_notebook()
p = figure()
p.line(ret[0], ret[2], line_color='green')
p.line(ret[0], ret[3], line_color='green')

p.line(ret[0], ret[1], line_color='red')
show(p)
c:\users\user\appdata\local\programs\python\python37-32\lib\site-packages\numpy\core\fromnumeric.py:83: RuntimeWarning: invalid value encountered in reduce
  return ufunc.reduce(obj, axis, dtype, out, **passkwargs)
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You should see a graph of red and green in time (samples). In red is the correlation of the correct subkey for the first byte, while the rest are in green.

You should see two or three distinctive red spikes. The first is the spot where the sbox lookup for the subkey we guessed actually happens (the later ones are from later steps in the AES operation).

What about the rest of the bytes in the key? We can get and plot that easily as well:

In [17]:
rets = []
for i in range(0, 16):
    rets.append(plot_data.outputVsTime(i))

p = figure()
for ret in rets:
    p.line(ret[0], ret[2], line_color='green')
    p.line(ret[0], ret[3], line_color='green')
    
for ret in rets:
    p.line(ret[0], ret[1], line_color='red')

show(p)

Conclusion

Awesome! You should have now completed a resynchronization of power traces. This is a very useful tool, and you can see how making a simple class could extend this work.

Tests

In [18]:
key = project.traceManager().getKnownKey(0)
recv_key = [kguess[0][0] for kguess in attack_results.findMaximums()]
assert (key == recv_key).all(), "Failed to recover encryption key\nGot: {}\nExpected: {}".format(recv_key, key)
In [19]:
assert (attack_results.pge == [0]*16), "PGE for some bytes not zero: {}".format(attack_results.pge)
In [20]:
if CHECK_CORR:
    max_corrs = [kguess[0][2] for kguess in attack_results.findMaximums()]
    assert (np.all([corr > 0.75 for corr in max_corrs])), "Low correlation in attack (corr <= 0.75): {}".format(max_corrs)